Laurie Cardoza-Moore

Laurie Cardoza-Moore (born February 20, 1962) is an American activist, film producer and evangelical leader who hosts the television program Focus On Israel on NRB TV. As Special Envoy to the United Nations, she states to focus on human rights abuses against Jews, Christians and Muslims.

In 2022, she ran unsuccessfully in the Republican primary for Tennessee House of Representatives District 63 against Jake McCalmon. She received an associate degree from the University of Florida in 1981, and the KD Conservatory College of Film and Dramatic Arts in 1987. She later moved to Franklin, Tennessee, from where she based her activism. grassroots organization committed to fighting anti-Semitism and defending Israel. PJTN was once deemed an anti-Muslim "hate group" by the Southern Poverty Law Center, although this designation was later removed.

She became known for leading the campaign against the construction of the new Islamic Center of Murfreesboro in 2010, and The Daily Show arguing for "stopping the advance of radical Islam in America." In this capacity she represents 44 million Christian congregants worldwide.

Her organization was the driving force behind a bill passed in the Tennessee state legislature in 2015 that condemned Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel as anti-Semitic, the first such action taken by any state legislature in the US. She has later pushed for similar resolutions in other states.

In 2020, she spread misinformation about the presidential election while urging people to "defend our Constitutional Republic" before the January 6 United States Capitol attack, where she stated she would be present. She has been accused of tapping active-duty military officials and veterans to join the insurrection.

She has worked with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to make the Hebrew Bible a requirement in Florida public schools, claiming that the US is "founded on Torah". She received praise from a spokesman for DeSantis for her review of textbooks that "caught and corrected dozens of books to prevent political indoctrination of Florida's children."

In 2025, she was ranked second in the Jerusalem Post's list of the “10 pro-Israel Christians” in the paper’s Influencers 25 project in light of her being a prominent Christian Zionist advocate for Israel. In 2021, she was appointed to the Tennessee Textbook and Instructional Materials Quality Commission, nominated by House Speaker Cameron Sexton, which is responsible for recommending textbooks and instructional materials to the Tennessee Department of Education. The Memphis Flyer also criticized her appointment as a "Mosque-Fighting, Insurrectionist, Vax Hoaxer, 9/11 Truther" and "anti-Black Lives Matter". She denied being a 9/11 truther during a hearing on the appointment, a claim which was based on a textbook review from her organization.

In 2022, she narrowly lost in the Republican primary for Tennessee House of Representatives District 63 against Jake McCalmon. She received 41.9% of the votes against McCalmon's 44.4%.

She refers to herself with the degree ThD, an honorary doctorate in theology she received from the Latin University of Theology, which is described as an unaccredited diploma mill.

Works Films and Television series Lest We Forget (2006), producer The Forgotten People (2007), producer The Forgotten People: Christianity and the Holocaust (2009), co-producer Focus on Israel (2012) Disinformation (2013), associate producer Israel Indivisible (2014), producer Boycott This! (2016), producer